Panaya SAP S/4HANA Preparation Process

We gathered a shortlisted guideline list for your Panaya SAP S/4HANA Preparation Process. This article includes all essential milestones in the preparation phase and links and references to other valuable resources.

These instructions are for an S/4HANA Conversion using Panaya S/4Convert. If you are upgrading your S/4HANA system using Panaya S/4Accelerate, please use these instructions.

Step A - Simplification Item Check Preparation

The SI should be installed on the Production System*   or a copy of the Production System with copied usage statistics**.

* On the ATC the SI does not need to be run but only the SI DB and Notes to be implemented
 to create Variants as S4HANA_READINESS_<S4 version>.

** SI relevancy checks are usage sensitive. It is possible in specific cases to run on a system other than PRD.
     In such cases replace all instructions for PRD or SBX with the relevant system.

Step B - Implement the last version of Notes

2399707 - Simplification Item Check
2187425 - Information about SAP Note Transport based Correction Instructions (TCI) -> Prerequisite for S4TC
2502552 - S4TC - SAP S/4HANA Conversion & Upgrade new Simplification Item Checks
2943919 - Simplification Item Check: Duplicates for INOB

Step C - Additional Notes to implement

Implement the below notes if running into issues.

2678215 - Poor Performance in RUN_S4H_SIF_CHECK_INIT using Oracle DB (with manual post imp. step)
2646649 - Performance improvements of generated methods of class CLS4SIC_MM_IM_SI1 (if KALNR check is slow)
2753888 - Increase Precheck performance: skip KALNR-check (class CLS4SIC_MM_IM_SI1) (with manual post imp. step)

Step D - Download and Import the SI Catalog, and execute the SI check Report

1. Navigate to https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#sic
   

2. Select the S4/HANA target version

3. Click on the right-hand side of the Item Overview menu bar to download the Simplification Item Catalog < todaysdate >.zip .
   

4. On your system where Panaya code extractor is running and if applicable on the target SI system, Execute SE38
   Execute program /SDF/RC_START_CHECK
   Select Upload Simplification Item Catalog and then select the ZIP file downloaded in the previous step (make sure to save the zip and reuse the same version in other systems).
   

5. Login to your target SI system (QA or Prod) using client 000, select your "Target SAP S/4HANA Version", and then Execute (F8):
   

6. From the result screen of /SDF/RC_START_CHECK, start the consistency checks for all relevant Simplification Items with the “Check Consistency for All” button
   
   

7.  If Step 6 is taking too long, review the following article for more information.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Step E - ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) Preparations

Setup of Central Check System with SAP NetWeaver 7.51, 7.52, or later (SAP_BASIS). The ATC runs here. Please read this article first.
For Alternatives use of remote or cloud systems advise with your CSM.

Production / Sandbox to be checked can be on SAP NetWeaver 7.00, 7.01, 7.02, 7.31, 7.40, 7.50, 7.51 or 7.52

Implement SAP Notes for the Central check System (Make sure to address manual post-implementation instructions)

• 2436688 - Recommended SAP Notes for using SAP S/4HANA custom code checks in ATC (with manal post/ imp. steps)

• 2364916 - Recommended SAP Notes for using ATC to perform remote analysis 

• 2423013 - Code Inspector test checksum infrastructure

• 2527903 - Remote analysis (for check system)

• 2505671 - Uniform saving of navigation information

• 2518335 - ATC or Code Inspector incorrectly displays findings

• 2524014 - ATC: Problems When Checking Modified SAP Code (with manual post imp. steps)

• 2503289 - ATC: The display of ATC results is extremely slow

• 2546419 - ASSERTION_FAILED in get_message_text

• 2942419 - Include ATC check 'S/4HANA: Readiness Check for SAP Queries' to the SAP S/4HANA custom code checks

• 3105801 - API: Internal error for call of function IQAPI_CONVERT_CODETYPE

 
Apply the SAP Note that corresponds to your S/4HANA target version

• 2659194 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 1809 custom code checks (with manual post imp. steps) if Target version is S/4HANA 1809 only

• 2812556 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 1909 custom code checks (with manual post imp. steps) If Target version is S/4HANA 1909 only

• 2959341 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 2020 custom code checks (with manual post imp. steps) If Target version is S/4HANA 2020 only

• 3090106 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 2021 custom code checks (with manual post imp. steps) If Target version is S/4HANA 2021 only

• 3231748 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 2022 custom code checks (with manual post imp. steps) If Target version is S/4HANA 2022 only

• 3365357 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 2023 custom code checks (with manual post imp. steps) If Target version is S/4HANA 2023 only
  
  

Additional SAP Notes to implement in case of issues

• 2546419 - ASSERTION_FAILED in get_message_text

• 2250196 - Update of Report MFLE_CLS4H_CHECKS_CC ( based on 2216958)

• 2423931 - MFLE_CLS4H_CHECKS_CC dumps with SAPSQL_LIKE_PATTERN_TOO_LONG

• 2794505 - ATC reports finding for in SAP includes belonging to USER-EXITS function groups (if ATC includes User exits)

• 2973326 - Short dump during check of programs with dynpro logic by CL_CI_TEST_ANALYZE_SELECT_HANA

 
Implement SAP Notes for the Prod / Sandbox 

• 2485231 - Remote ATC Checks of Modifications and Enhancements 

• 2270689 - RFC Extractor for performing static checks 

• 2190065 - ATC/CI: Remote Code Analysis - Object Provider Stub 

• 2196792 - RFC-Stub for CVA/SLIN-Remote 

Step F - Downloading & Importing the Simplification Database Content

To download the Simplification Database Content - 

1. Navigate to https://support.sap.com/swdc
2. Select Software Downloads
3. Search for Component CCMSIDB (select Downloads and enter CCMSIDB in the search area of the screen)
4. Download the latest patch of the displayed Simplification Database Content 
   See SAP Note 2241080 - SAP S/4HANA: Content for checking customer-specific code
5. Save the Simplification Database Content ZIP file locally

To import the Simplification Database Content - 

After you have successfully downloaded the ZIP file from the SAP Service Marketplace.

Please check you have the following authorizations:

1. In the Central Check System, run transaction SYCM.

2. Use the menu to select Simplification Database Import from ZIP File

3. Select the ZIP file previously downloaded, then confirm with Open

The ATC uses the SCI and runs the following predefined SCI variants -

Step G - ATC setup, ATC configuration, ATC execution 

In both the Central Check System and in PROD/SBX

1. Set up User with Role SAP_SATC_ADMIN
   (Description - Authorization for setting up ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) for central quality checking)
   
   Add the following Authorization Objects to enable import of the simulation DB

2.  SET up an ATC RFC to the SBX as described in section “Create RFC Connection”.
    The user running the RFC need the following authorization Objects to be granted by the SBX  (The checked system where Panaya extractor is running)

3. Run transaction ATC in the central check system and configure the remote ATC Checks as described here.
   Alternatively, take a look at this screen recording showing the exact step can be found here.
   
   

Step H - SAP Code Inspector (SCI) for HANA 2.0

For HANA 2.0 Migration prep. and performance results, the SAP Code Inspector needs to be run and its results uploaded in the extract process.

Watch a screen recording of this step

Step I - Create RFC Connections

1. Identify a User for the RFC to use on each system to be accessed (Not a personal user). 

2. Set Authorizations required for the code extraction RFC user

3. Use SM59 to create RFCs as following (more details here) . ). 1 RFC per Application server per direction is required unless different clients are used.  For instance, SI needs to be run on client 000 but the prod. Client is different. SAP suggest also alternative RFC strategies here.

   	RFC Destination	Connection Type	Description 1
   From ATC system to SBX	ATC_RFC	3 (ABAP connection)	ATC_RFC
   From SBX to PROD	PANAYA_PRD	3 (ABAP connection)	PANAYA_PRD
   From SBX to ATC system	PANAYA_ATC	3 (ABAP connection)	PANAYA_ATC
   From SBX to PROD (client 000)	PANAYA_SI	3 (ABAP connection)	PANAYA_SI

Additional RFC’s to enrich the Analysis Results (validation can be disabled if required

Step J - Download the Extract Code, Configure & Execute

1. In Panaya, click on the Settingsbutton to open up the settings panel

2. Select your current ERP version
   

3. Download the ABAP code
   

4. On your ECC system where you plan to check your custom code, create an executable program named ZPANAYA_EXTRACT_PROG_LIB and import or paste the ABAP code | Learn more

5. Execute transaction SE38 and type the program name ZPANAYA_EXTRACT_PROG_LIB and click on the execute button. 

6. Select Background mode and enter the Background Directory path (e.g. \tmp) on the SAP application server. 

7. For Target system under RFC destination, type - PANAYA_PRD 
   

8. For the Simplification Items Check RFC Destination, type - PANAYA_SI 
   Use client 000 when running SI checks (results in reporting all errors for all other clients). Be sure to configure the PANAYA_SI RFC destination to use client 000, more information can be found here.
   
   If you have previously extracted & uploaded SI results, these can be reused by checking Use previous SI | Contact Panaya Support for more details

9. For the HANA SAP Code Inspector execution mode choose option A or read here for more options. 

10. Execute in Background mode.
    Help on these steps can be found here and a link to a recording showing this step here. 

11. Gzip the resulting Report  (do not edit or transfer before) and upload in the same screen the executable code was downloaded.
    A confirmation mail will follow shortly. Your analysis should be ready within 48 hours.